My favorite thing about the new version of Outlook (/me braces for a flood of
alternative mailer recommendations) is (or I should say, was) how it refused, by default, to download
images in mail messages from over the 'net without being asked to. This managed
to save me countless pointless image downloads, and also helps protect privacy,
since spammers use access logs to see who downloaded such images to tell whether
their spam has reached an actual user so they can resell your address. The
bummer is that after telling it to download the images in one single mail, this
no longer works properly on other mails, even though it is still set to skip
images unless told otherwise. Oh well, it was neat while it lasted...